Re: Info mode misformats menu entries with refs in description

[Karl Berry]

Hello Tim,

Thanks for your report.  rms asked me to work on it.

    The bison manual for version 1.875 contains a menu entry (Pure Calling)
    that has a @pxref in its description.  While standalone info handles
    this just fine, it seems to cause the emacs Info reader to justify
    the menu block as a paragraph, losing menu functionality.

Unfortunately I can't reproduce this in the released 21.3, in either the
bison manual or your standalone example.  When I go to the entry you
refer to:

* Pure Calling::      How the calling convention differs
                        in a pure parser (*note A Pure (Reentrant) Parser: Pure 
Decl.).

I can use `f' to follow the reference, and I end up at the (correct)
Pure Decl node.  And, if I use RET to follow the menu entry, I end up at
the (correct) Pure Calling node.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean "justify the menu block as a
paragraph".  What appears on the screen should be whatever is in the
Info file.  If that's not happening, and what's on your screen is a
justified mishmash, there's a much more serious bug in the info
interpretation.

If it's easy for you to try the released 21.3, could you do that please?
That way at least we'll know if it was a change introduced since the
release.  (Unfortunately I can't access emacs cvs right now to see if
some likely change has been made.)

    Note that standalone info does have a quirk related to such refs -
    when they are selected, info will jump to the menu entry's node, not
    the node specified in the ref.

Since releasing Texinfo 4.5, I've made some changes that might have
affected that.  In any case, with my current sources, the behavior again
seems correct to me.

Thanks,
karl